... What's your recipe for Sleep? NAT GOODWIN, the American comedian, once wrote: I get up early in the morning and take a brisk cold shower. After an energetic go at horseback riding I come back and take another cold shower. Then comes eighteen holes of golf. In the evening I eat a light dinner and then read a light and engaging book. After a warm bath I go to bed and not a J wink can I sleep all ...

... CDRRIES Wuk CHARACTER i The ingredients added to the curry should always be adapted to the character of the dish. Those for curried meat will not be the same as for curried fish, vegetables, or chicken. For example don't add anchovy essence for meat don't add garlic for beef or chicken don't add apples to vegetables. Owing to the absence of rice, use pearl barley, vermicelli, macaroni finely ...

... r f OATMEAL is sustaining and warming and can be delicious in flavour if used wisely and combined with other ingredients. There are excellent dishes to be made from oatmeal for any meal from breakfast to supper, and as it is fortun ately plentiful again we can use it freely. For instance, for breakfast there are f such dishes as fruit and oatcakes, oatmeal porridge or sausages served on ...

... By Harriot Miiir Spinach Pancakes Wash 1½ lb. of spinach and throw into boiling salted water. Cook ten minutes, drain, and chop finely. Return to saucepan, stir in 1½ tablespoonfuls margarine, season with salt, pepper, and grated cheese; keep hot. Heat two eggs, mix in two tablespoonfuls flour, add milk to right consistency, and season with salt. Make five pancakes. Put on serving-dish ...

... The Cheaper Cuts NEW ENGLAND POT ROAST Cut 1 lb. of meat into small squares and cover with cold, salted water or vegetable stock. When boiling, remove the scum three times and then add 1 carrot, 1 potato, 1 small turnip and a bouquet of chives and parsley. Let simmer for 1 hour with the lid on, then strain, keeping the meat hot. Melt 2 oz. of margarine, add 1 tablespoonful of flour, and mix ...

... SHORT-NOTICE MEALS MACARONI (as a main dish) Scrape and chop 4 large carrots and cover with water; bring to the boil. When soft, strain, keeping back the water. Do the same with 1 medium-sized broccoli and 1 lb. of onions. Mix all the waters together and salt to taste. Bring to the boil once more and throw in 2 cupfuls of macaroni. Leave for 10 minutes, then strain. Mix the vegetables with ...

... M p /s ^yf c^& -piia h -b Ac A SMALL fry makes a very tempting breakfast or supper dish for a few people and gives you the opportunity of finishing odds and ends in your larder satisfactorily. All sorts of bits mix unexpectedly well when introduced in the frying pan and can be served prettily arranged like a small grill. Eating with the eye is an essential factor with meals served on ...

... C jood Z)iviS iX SALMON PUDDING Strain off the liquid from a tin of good salmon and with it make a thick sauce. Cream the fish, adding the sauce and 1 oz. of margarine. Work until a smooth paste is obtained. Next make a batter with 1 cupful of milk, 2 reconstituted eggs, 1 cupful of flour and a pinch of salt. Toss up some very thin pancakes. iX (You should make 10 pancakes with the ...

... L/hi6 SUMMER, it seems, according to analysis, is the time when indigestion is most rife. This may be attributable to the hasty eating of salads and sum mer foods which we regard, sometimes quite incorrectly, as light and, therefore, easily digested. It may also be, in some cases, that extra strain put upon the body by strenuous out door occupations, is partly to blame. One thing is sure, ...

... Light Food For Heavy Weather FISH PUDDING Mix 4 cupfuls of cooked, boned, skinned and flaked fish with 1 of mashed potatoes. Reconstitute 2 eggs with milk instead of water, beat them well and mix with the fish. Add salt and pepper and ½ cupful of tomato purée. Grease a pudding bowl, sprinkle with breadcrumbs and fill with the mixture. Tie a cloth round the bowl and steam for 45 minutes. Turn ...

... Naiads J)n Reason VEGETABLE POT-POURRI Fill two cups with small onions and place the latter in a fire proof dish with, if available, a small quantity of salad oil (if no oil, then with a few margarine shavings) and leave in a medium oven- until tender. Mix with 1 cupful of raw cauliflower flowerettes, 1 of cooked french beans and 1 of diced, cooked beetroot. Grate separately 1 onion and 1 ...

... t NORMALLY, few of us would undertake the washing of heavy furnishings when they could be sent to the cleaners. But now, when anything up to two months may elapse before cleaning is recovered, the only practical alternative seems to be do it yourself. Washing the heavies is no ordinary under taking, particularly in the case of velours, tweeds and hessian fabrics, but there are ways of mini ...